Williams claimed to have gotten dysentery from drinking flood water
and seeing dead bodies float past his hotel in the New Orleans French
Quarter while covering Hurricane Katrina.

However the The New Orleans Advocate
noted that the French Quarter was not flooded and quoted a local health
expert who did not recall anyone getting such a stomach ailment.

Williams recalled his bout with the bug in interview with Tom Brokaw
last year, when he said: “I accidentally ingested some of the
floodwater. I became very sick with dysentery."

The Advocate said a public health official never heard of people getting things like dysentery after the storm.

“I don’t recall a single, solitary case of gastroenteritis during
Katrina or in the whole month afterward,” Dr. Brobson Lutz told The
Advocate.

“I don’t know anybody that’s tried that [drinking flood water] to see, but my dogs drank it, and they didn’t have any problems.”

Williams said also during an interview in 2006 that he saw dead bodies float past his window in the French Quarter.

“When you look out of your hotel window in the French Quarter and
watch a man float by face down, when you see bodies that you last saw in
Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and swore to yourself that you would never see
in your country,” Williams said in 2006.

But the French Quarter, the original high ground of New Orleans, was
not impacted by the floodwaters that overwhelmed the vast majority of
the city, The Advocate said.

He also said in his Brokaw interview: “Our hotel was overrun with
gangs, I was rescued in the stairwell of a five-star hotel in New
Orleans by a young police officer. We are friends to this day.”

“Brokaw wants Williams’ head on a platter,” an NBC source said. “He is
making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would
have been immediately fired or suspended for a false report.”

Brokaw's own credibility is in question here, since he apparently knew the Iraq helicopter tale was a fable:

Brokaw, 74, was still the “Nightly News” anchor when Williams came
back from his Iraq expedition — and an insider said he knew the story
Williams later spouted was bunk.

“Tom Brokaw and [former NBC News President] Steve Capus knew this was
a false story for a long time and have been extremely uncomfortable
with it,” the source said.

NBC News execs had counseled him to stop telling the tale.

NBC put a guy who made shit up about his Iraq war reporting experience into the Nightly News anchor chair - heckuva job NBC!

While the elites at NBC are trying to save Williams' lying ass, some of the plebes feel differently:

NBC brass hasn’t been talking to lower-level employees about the situation, leaving people in a panic, the insider said.

“NBC bosses don’t understand how serious this is. Nobody in a
leadership position is talking to the troops. Nobody has addressed it,”
the source said.

One longtime NBC employee who has worked with Williams on several
occasions had a few dirty words to describe the celebrated anchor,
calling him a “real pompous piece of s–t.”

“He’s an a–hole,” he fumed. “He’s not a journalist. He’s a reader.

“Oh, the fireworks that are going off inside,” he said. “It’s embarrassing. He’s the face on NBC. He’s a liar.

“Everyone knew it.”

Can't wait for the next NBC Education Nation where the pompous Williams asks directs questions to Michelle Rhee about the importance of holding teachers accountable for their performance and behavior.

Same goes for Brokaw, who has been known to pontificate about teachers unions allowing poor performing teachers to remain in their profession.

Brokaw knew Williams was full of shit, NBC News brass knew he was full of shit, Williams himself knew he was full of shit - and yet, there was Brian Williams, hosting the NBC Nightly News last night.